Mute your email!

Colleagues,

Three strategies to decrease the number of notifications you receive every day:
 
Strategy 1: Turn off email notifications

• Turn them off and leave them off
• On every device
• Never turn them on again

 
Strategy 2: Do not use email for synchronous conversations

• If someone is emailing you and trying to have a conversation, call them
• Do not do back-and-forth email messages, especially in real time.
• Don’t do it!

 
Strategy 3: Create a shared “need to know” document

• Identify a common place to record important FYI information
• Share it between the people who need it
• Condition yourselves to checking it

 
Three more tomorrow.
 
Cheers!
 
Frederick